A mildly built 6.0 L block should get 400 without much issue. I think stock LS2 components would get you there.

Doing this to a 66 Le Mans at the moment. Though, the power to weight ratio will not be ideal. More like 11 or 12 to 1.

FWD is irrelevant. The engineers simply forgot to put in a driveshaft and rear end.

Define “rewarding.”

Bringing enthusiasts closer to their car of choice is what I do :P

It’s true, at either extremes, the math gets more complicated, though I must disagree... 200hp for a 2000 lbs car is a lot, but not absurd.

Nonsense.

Time for a supercharger....

Fiesta ST will get you pretty close. Time to go trade up and get some bolt-ons!

Agreed, though bhp vs whp is within an acceptable margin of error, in my opinion.

Honestly, I think 1 horsepower per 10 lbs is about right. So, a 3000 lbs car should have about 300hp, and a 4000 lbs car should have 400hp.

The reason for this is simple: even if you know the person is wrong, you rarely want to be the asshole who begins a sentence with the phrase “Well, actually…”

I looked for a MKIV for awhile and eventually gave up. Went a different route for my primary vehicle.

And the GEN III Chevrolet small block in it will, ironically, outlast the Odyssey several times over.

As the owner of both a 285ish hp 350z and a 450hp Camaro, I’d like to chime in. Jason you absolutely have a point, even on the track, some of the most fun I had was in a 190hp BMW. I could throw that car into a corner and just stand on the gas the whole way through. A lot of fun, and it feels like you can toss that…

At 50k? I’d dump it within the next 20k miles. In both my parent’s cars, the transmissions failed at 75k and 89k, and the transmission repairs were both quoted at over $7000. Both times they fought with the dealership and both times they got it down to roughly $3000, which is about $2999 more than I would pay for any…

I think stylized tips are fine, as long as they are actually exhaust. And I actually think “exhaust tip port-holes” are not ideal, but OK. A hexagonal piece of metal clipped the the rear bumper that isn’t actually attached to a pipe is a little jenky of a way to hide a boring exhaust pipe, but as long as it does serve…

I think the issue with the model 3 is not the lack of grill on its own. I think the issue stems from the fact that the front end shape LOOKS like a grill was supposed to go there and they simply forgot to cut the hole out of the mold.

while that Honda Odyssey trucks on for another 300k Cheetoh-stained miles.

the image was dated near the court date as opposed to years before